Imagen: photo looking over the shoulder of a robot looking at a screen with chat messages and hand writing notes
This tutorial shows how to make a Google Chat app that responds to incidents in real time. When responding to an incident, the app creates and populates a Chat space, facilitates incident resolution with messages, slash commands, and dialogs, and uses AI to summarize the incident response in a Google Docs document.
Paraphrasing noted Google Workspace Developer Expert, Romain Vialard, GenAI has made Google Chat apps a tangible prospect. This tutorial from the Google Developers site is a great example of how you can use Google’s Vertex AI with Google Chat. The tutorial will help you create a Google Apps Script powered Chat app that is able to summaries the messages in a Google Chat space.
There is a lot to take away from this example, but here are some of the headlines:
Setting a Google Cloud Project to use the new Google Chat Advanced Service for Apps Script
Setup and code for making calls to Google’s Vertex AI PaLM API (LLM) from Google Apps Script
Using the responses from Vertex AI to generate new assets.
There is a lot more you can do from this starting point, but hopefully it gives you a great starting point.
